2000 British Academy Television Awards

The 2000 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 14 May 2000. The ceremony was hosted by sportscaster Des Lynam, aired on ITV and took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.

Winners and nominees

Best Drama Series	Best Drama Serial
The Cops *Cold Feet *Playing the Field *Psychos	Warriors *Births, Marriages and Deaths *Kid in the Corner *Wives and Daughters
Best Single Drama	Best Soap and Continuing Drama
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence *Dockers *Lost for Words *Sex 'n' Death	EastEnders *Brookside *Coronation Street *Emmerdale
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Michael Gambon – Wives and Daughters* as Squire Hamley** Aidan Gillen – Queer as Folk* as Stuart Alan Jones Pete Postlethwaite – Lost for Words* as Deric Longden Timothy Spall – Shooting the Past* as Oswald Bates	*Thora Hird – Lost for Words* as Annie Longden** Francesca Annis – Wives and Daughters* as Hyacinth Gibson Lindsay Duncan – Shooting the Past* as Marilyn Truman Maggie Smith – David Copperfield* as Betsey Trotwood
Best Comedy Performance	Best Comedy
*Caroline Aherne – The Royle Family* as Denise Best** Dawn French – The Vicar of Dibley* as Geraldine Granger Sue Johnston – The Royle Family* as Barbara Royle Ricky Tomlinson – The Royle Family* as Jim Royle	The League of Gentlemen *The Best of Ali G *People Like Us *Smack the Pony
Best Scripted Comedy	Best Entertainment Performance
The Royle Family *Dinnerladies *Spaced *The Vicar of Dibley	Graham Norton – So Graham Norton *John Bird and John Fortune – Bremner, Bird and Fortune**** Sacha Baron Cohen – The 11 O'Clock Show Michael Parkinson – Parkinson
Entertainment Programme or Series	Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire Have I Got News for You Robot Wars *So Graham Norton	Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict The Paddington Crash *Tonight with Trevor McDonald — Interview with the Lawrence Suspects
Best Factual Series or Strand	Huw Wheldon Award for Best Arts Programme or Series
The Mayfair Set Manhunt - The Search for the Yorkshire Ripper The Second World War in Colour *Shanghai Vice	This is Modern Art The ABBA Story Hitchcock Alfred the Great / Alfred the Auteur *The Hip Hop Years
Robert Flaherty Award for Single Documentary	Best Feature
True Stories – Divorce Iranian Style Gulag True Stories – Kosovo - The Valley *Malcolm and Barbara - A Love Story	Blood on the Carpet Giants with Nigel Marven Grand Designs *The Naked Chef
Best Sport	Innovation
Test Cricket Interactive Live Football Formula One 1999 *The Open Golf Championship 1999	Walking with Dinosaurs The 1900 House The League of Gentlemen *Tina Goes Shopping
Lew Grade Audience Award	The Dennis Potter Award
A Touch of Frost Dinnerladies Ground Force The Vicar of Dibley Walking with Dinosaurs	Tony Marchant
The Alan Clarke Award	Special Award
Peter Kosminsky	The Avengers – Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley, Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson

Programmes with multiple nominations

Nominations	Programme
4	The Royle Family
3	Lost for Words
3	The Vicar of Dibley
3	Wives and Daughters
2	-
2	Dinnerladies
2	The League of Gentlemen
2	Shooting the Past
2	So Graham Norton
2	Walking with Dinosaurs
2	-

Nominations	Network
23	BBC One
22	Channel 4
16	BBC Two
15	ITV